Hot Air Balloon Glow

The annual Vernon Hot Air Balloon Glow was held on February 5th this is one of my favorite events of the Vernon Winter Carnival, because people from all over the WORLD come to take part in the winter carnival and put their hot air balloons up. This event is also a chance to get up close and personal with real hot air balloons. In the morning the balloons took to the sky, and looked beautiful. I always love looking up and watching them float across the sky with all their fabulous colors.
The Hot Air Balloon Glow is when they fill the balloons at night and have them tied down so you can get into some of them and see how huge they are. The balloons look spectacular
at night with the colors seeming to glow. For the first time I watched a balloon getting set up. I could see them (up close) blowing flame into a balloon that was on the ground until it was filled and in the air, the huge propane torches roar when they blast the flame up into the Balloon and give off a lot of heat. I was lucky to get the chance to hop into a couple of the balloon baskets, and one even became airborne for a few seconds. The flame shooting up over my head made me jump as you can feel the extreme heat coming from it. It was all really cool and the pilots were really awesome about letting me take pictures in their balloons